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Hedrigall posted:Here's the new & official reading order graphic for Discworld: It's also wrong. Unless something changed and I missed it, The Last Hero is meant to be set after all the other books.
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Hedrigall posted:
I kinda like how incredible misleading the cover on that book is.
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Sep 6, 2015 11:10
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I like the bit where Vimes explains that he can go wherever he wants in Uberwald, because his diplomatic status gives him a multipass.
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Sep 6, 2015 12:19
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I bet Hugh Laurie could do a good Bursar. Well, him or Stephen Fry, really.
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Sep 6, 2015 17:07
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I've always felt that Hugh Laurie could pull off Sam Vimes pretty well.
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Sep 6, 2015 17:15
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If not for House I would never have agreed with you, but after that, I could see it. Fry would make a brilliant wizard. Definitely not the Bursar though; he's routinely portrayed as being thin to the point of emaciation. Actually Fry would be a decent Ridcully I think. Think Lord Melchett.
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Sep 6, 2015 21:01
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Stephen Fry would be the Dean, I think.
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Sep 6, 2015 21:45
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thespaceinvader posted:If not for House I would never have agreed with you, but after that, I could see it. Lord Melchett is the complete opposite of Ridcully though.
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Sep 7, 2015 06:45
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I finished The Shepherd's Crown, and despite clearly needing a few passes to clean up/rewrites, which for obvious reasons couldn't have been done it was a good book, the best since And I Shall Wear Midnight in my opinion. Really sad book and even more so considering his passing and the topics of the book, but also hopeful. Also Agnes Nitt hasn't been totally forgotten! edit: Why does people make lovely circular graphs, when there is a perfectly readable and simple one available for decades? 
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Sep 7, 2015 07:50
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I still want Jack Dee to be Vimes, and Liza Tarbuck to be Lady Sybil and every time I see them on panel shows it makes me angry that this hasn't happened yet.
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Sep 7, 2015 11:01
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VagueRant posted:I still want Jack Dee to be Vimes, and Liza Tarbuck to be Lady Sybil and every time I see them on panel shows it makes me angry that this hasn't happened yet. Joanna Scanlan could be Sybil too. I'm not sure Vimes should be played by a comedian. And Jack Dee should be Professor Whiteface.
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Sep 7, 2015 11:22
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Possibly Jerome Flynn? I've long imagined Vimes as someone whose past and chosen career have treated him roughly, especially about the face. Makes a nice contrast to the pampered aristos he's obliged to coexist with later, as well.
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Sep 7, 2015 11:36
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Apparently Terry's own choice for Vimes would have been Pete Postlethwaite (mayherestinpeace)
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Sep 7, 2015 11:58
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 Tell me that's not Sam godsdamn Vimes.
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Sep 7, 2015 13:41
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Jedit posted:It's also wrong. Unless something changed and I missed it, The Last Hero is meant to be set after all the other books. Several books implicitly, and Unseen Academicals explicitly, take place after the Last Hero. You can tell because Ponder Stibbons and the Dean both got promotions in UA that they didn't have in LH.
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Sep 7, 2015 16:16
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I always thought that the Discworld timeline was roughly equivalent to the publishing order? I haven't really seen anything to suggest otherwise.
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Sep 7, 2015 16:27
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After Thief of Time, sure.
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Sep 7, 2015 16:39
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Alhazred posted:Lord Melchett is the complete opposite of Ridcully though. Opposite in terms of character, but it's more the loud and brash attitude I'm thinking of. Breezing in, giving orders in a loud voice, ignoring dissent, that sort of animal. I may be thinking more of General Melchett though. Jack Dee doesn't feel like Vimes to me. He's got the grump down, but he doesn't have the... active feel of later Vimes.
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Sep 7, 2015 18:10
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Continuity isn't always perfect either, one big example is that the Department of Postmortem Communications didn't exist in Reaper Man.
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Sep 7, 2015 18:13
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thespaceinvader posted:I may be thinking more of General Melchett though. Yeah, Lord Melchett was the bootlicking coward.
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Sep 7, 2015 18:38
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Konstantin posted:Continuity isn't always perfect either, one big example is that the Department of Postmortem Communications didn't exist in Reaper Man. Probably because they used to be called the Department of Necromancy..
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Sep 7, 2015 18:40
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Konstantin posted:Continuity isn't always perfect either, one big example is that the Department of Postmortem Communications didn't exist in Reaper Man. Thief of Time 
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Sep 7, 2015 19:24
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Jack Dee has the cynicism, but he doesn't have the street. If you absolutely must have a comedian for Vimes, you want someone like Paul Merton or John Bishop.
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Sep 7, 2015 19:34
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Alhazred posted:Yeah, Lord Melchett was the bootlicking coward.
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Sep 7, 2015 20:56
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Trin Tragula posted:Jack Dee has the cynicism, but he doesn't have the street. If you absolutely must have a comedian for Vimes, you want someone like Paul Merton or John Bishop. Vimes is far better played by a straight man anyway. He's not a comic character in that fashion. Based on the ad I just saw for An Inspector Calls I could see David Thewlis (Lupin in Harry Potter) as Vimes actually.
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Sep 7, 2015 21:35
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Susan Calman as Cheery?
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Sep 8, 2015 01:55
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Trin Tragula posted:Jack Dee has the cynicism, but he doesn't have the street. If you absolutely must have a comedian for Vimes, you want someone like Paul Merton or John Bishop.  That'd be awful.
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Sep 8, 2015 01:59
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Geokinesis posted:
He'd be better than some upper class guy like Hugh Laurie, who I like, but Vimes has to have a believable working class accent. God knows if Bishop can even act though, and you'd need to give all the other Ankh-Morpork born characters Scouse accents, which would be be pretty funny, but tricky from a casting perspective. Easier just to take someone who can do a passable mockney and work from there.
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Sep 8, 2015 08:32
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So I just finished The Shepherd's Crown. I thought it was pretty good, better than Raising Steam. So judging by the afterward there's meant to be a fifth Long Earth book, what are the chances that Stephen Baxter will finish it off?
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Sep 8, 2015 11:34
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EvilTaytoMan posted:So I just finished The Shepherd's Crown. I thought it was pretty good, better than Raising Steam. 100% certain. Baxter's already said he's doing it and at least one magazine has issued an apology for saying The Long Utopia was the final book in the series.
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Sep 8, 2015 12:15
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/Long-Cosmos-Terry-Pratchett/dp/0857521780/ June 2016.
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Sep 8, 2015 12:47
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Mindy Kaling should play Vetinari.
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Sep 8, 2015 13:17
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VagueRant posted:Tell me that's not Sam godsdamn Vimes. "Oh yeah, that would make total sense." "Well, the serial killer Sergeant would make for a perfect Vimes!" "  "
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Sep 10, 2015 19:43
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I could see Eddie Marsan as Vimes but I want Pete Postlethwaite. 
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Sep 10, 2015 19:52
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thespaceinvader posted:Opposite in terms of character, but it's more the loud and brash attitude I'm thinking of. Breezing in, giving orders in a loud voice, ignoring dissent, that sort of animal. I may be thinking more of General Melchett though. Having thought about it a little the past few days, I think Mark Strong could do a decent Vimes. He's about the right age now for Vimes as he starts out I think and reminds me a decent amount of Pete Postlethwaite early on. Eddie Marsan could be good as well, having seen him as Mr Norrel.
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Sep 11, 2015 09:18
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Christopher Eccleston. He's got the shirty working class hate the nobs schtick down pat. Plus he's got the stone face thing going on.
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tessiebee posted:Christopher Eccleston. He's got the shirty working class hate the nobs schtick down pat. Plus he's got the stone face thing going on. I had that thought, too. He's got the right fire to be Vimes. And Vimes should be northern.
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Sep 13, 2015 13:31
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tessiebee posted:Christopher Eccleston. He's got the shirty working class hate the nobs schtick down pat. Plus he's got the stone face thing going on. I actually thought he'd make a perfect Vetinari. Because, of course, he can do that voice too.
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Sep 13, 2015 16:24
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tessiebee posted:Christopher Eccleston. He's got the shirty working class hate the nobs schtick down pat. Plus he's got the stone face thing going on.
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The first Doctor in the Doctor Who revival. The northern one. Also, Destro in the GI Joe movie. He'd do a good Vimes, yeah. He's nowhere near smooth enough for Vetinari I don't think.
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